Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 1406B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Miscellaneous works on Sufism and literature, 6 items (a-f)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Miscellaneous collection of works on Sufism and literary commentary, comprised of fragments extracted from several heterogeneous sources. Volume not dated. Rough nastaʿlīq, shikastah āmīz, and taʿlīq scripts by multiple hands. Limited annotations in margins. Intermittent foliation in pencil. Lacking original binding. Plain paper dust wrapper. Folios mostly unbound; water and fungal stains, cropped, wormholes, later paper repairs. Condition fragile.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

1. ff. 1r-2v
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Delhi Persian 1406B a.

Fragment of an untitled list of Arabic and Persian works and volumes by an unnamed compiler.

Not dated at end; datable to the early nineteenth century.

Flyleaf 1Av comprises a fragment extracted from an Arabic religious text.

2. ff. 3r-111v

Delhi Persian 1406B b.

Fragment of an untitled commentary by an unnamed author explaining the lyrics or ghazalīyāt of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī takhalluṣ Ḥāfiẓ (d. 792/1390).

The present copy is defective at the beginning and end.

Not dated at end; datable to the eighteenth century.

Annotations in margins.

Quotations in red.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3. ff. 112r-154r

Delhi Persian 1406B c.

Fragment of an untitled Sufi treatise on correct moral conduct by an unnamed author.

The present copy starts into bāb or chapter six and extends until bāb twenty-six.

The present copy is defective at the beginning and end.

Not dated at end; datable to the eighteenth century.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
4. ff. 155r-158v

Delhi Persian 1406B d.

Hagiographic treatise by an unnamed author in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, based on extracts from the Madārij al-nubuvvah by the celebrated muḥaddis̲ of Delhi, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn.

The present copy is defective at the end.

Not dated at end; datable to the early nineteenth century.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
5. ff. 159r-160v

Delhi Persian 1406B e.

Fragment of an untitled commentary on the poems of the celebrated poet and Sufi, Mawlānā Rūmī Balkhī (d. 672/1273), by an unnamed author.

The present copy is defective at the beginning and end.

Not dated at end; datable to the late eighteenth century.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
6. f. 161

Delhi Persian 1406B f.

Fragment of an untitled Arabic treatise on medicine by an unnamed author.

The work describes Ibn Sīnā as an authority.

Although the present copy is defective at the beginning, the text ends abruptly without formal conclusion or colophon.

Not dated at end; datable to the early nineteenth century.

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 161 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 231 × 133 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1700 - 1850 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

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